Spain & Portugal 19

Known in early modern Europe by many names – the French Disease, the Bubas, and, eventually, syphilis – the Great Pox was a chronic disease that carried the stigma of sexuality and produced a slow a……続きを見る

In the second sentence of Don Quixote, Cervantes describes the diet of the protagonist, Alonso Quijano: “A stew made of more beef than mutton, cold salad on most nights, abstinence eggs on Saturdays……続きを見る

Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women analyzes five novels by women writers that present women’s experiences during and after the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship……続きを見る

Hernan Cortes was an ambitious, brutal man. His rival, Moctezuma, was the emperor of one of the world's largest cities. Cortes stops at nothing to bring the entire kingdom to its knees. This is one ……続きを見る

In this wide-ranging study of French intellectuals who represented the Spanish Civil War as it was happening and in its immediate aftermath, Martin Hurcombe explores the ways in which these individu……続きを見る

Focusing on literary texts produced from 2000 to 2009, Lorraine Ryan examines the imbrication between the preservation of Republican memory and the transformations of Spanish public space during the……続きを見る

Este volume reune as comunicac?es apresentadas no Encontro Internacional sobre Claustros no Mundo Mediterranico, organizado pelas linhas de investigac?o em Arte Medieval e Arte Moderna do Instituto ……続きを見る

Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices……続きを見る

This book analyzes the decay of Liberal politics in Spain as the regional version of the general crisis that engulfed most of Europe between 1916 and 1923. Romero enriches the important wider debate……続きを見る

First published in 2002. This fascinating collection of essays examines the politics of gender and desire in premodern Iberia. Eukene Lacarra Lanz brings together a group of noted specialists in Ara……続きを見る

How does society deal with a serial killer in its midst? What if the murderer is a Catholic priest living among native villagers in colonial Peru? In The Chankas and the Priest, Sabine Hyland chroni……続きを見る

HISTORIA DEL ANARCOSINDICALISMO ESPAÑOL llega en nuestra editorial a la 4a Edición. Hace ya tiempo, cuando la dictadura estaba en pleno apogeo, este libro fue uno de los primeros eleme……続きを見る

The final, revised, edition of Burnett Bolloten’s exhaustive and indispensable, 50-year-long scholarly study of Republican/revolutionary politics in the Spanish Civil War (“The Grand Camouflage:, 19……続きを見る

Anarchist Noam Chomsky’s 1969 clinical dissection of historian Gabriel Jackson’s The Spanish Republic and the Civil War:1931-1939 (in American Power and the New Mandarins) which, to quote editor Bar……続きを見る

The Catholic Church of early modern Europe intended the sacrament of matrimony to represent a lifelong commitment, and it allowed few grounds for the dissolution of an unhappy marriage. One was nonc……続きを見る

Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. H……続きを見る

In 1960, renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt moved himself and his family to a small Basque village in the French Pyrenees. The son of Basque emigrants, Laxalt wanted to learn as much as he could a……続きを見る

History of the Conquest of Peru by the American historian,William Hickling Prescott.The story was about the fall of the Inca civillisation in Peru. 続きを見る

History of the Moors of Spain by Florian.This book is about historic and modern populations of Berber,it about some of whom came to conquer and occupy the Iberian Peninsula for nearly 800 yeasrs,At ……続きを見る

The Moors in Spain by the British orientalist and archaeologist, Stanley Lane-Poole.This book is about history in Spain,at Moors. 続きを見る

A short history summarising the transformation of Barcelona’s CNT Defence Committees during the 1930s from their origins as street fighting units to their reorganisation as integrated combat/ intell……続きを見る

An examination of Basque nationalism from a historical perspective.Basque nationalism has been extensively examined from the perspectives of Basque culture and internal conditions in the Basque Coun……続きを見る

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Francisco Pizarro, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá: • Entend……続きを見る

This book examines the contested representations of those murdered during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s in two small rural communities as they undergo the experience of exhumation, identificati……続きを見る

Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh accou……続きを見る

In 1474, a twenty-three year old woman ascended the throne of Castile, the largest and strongest kingdom in Spain. Ahead of her lay the considerable challenge not only of being a young, female ruler……続きを見る

In 1598, at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, New Mexico became Spain’s northernmost New World colony. The censures of the Catholic Church reached all the way to Santa Fe, where in the mid-1660……続きを見る

Wolfram – also known as Tungsten – is about more than electric light bulbs. Its more deadly claim-to-fame rests in its armour-piercing qualities. During WWII, Wolfram was in great demand with both t……続きを見る

Als Ludwig Renn im Oktober 1936 in Barcelona ankommt, will er nicht nur der spanischen Republik helfen, er hat auch die unersetzlichen Erfahrungen des Weltkriegsoffiziers im Gepäck. Er wird zum Stab……続きを見る

Written during the Spanish Civil War, published in 1943, revised in 1950 and republished in paperback in1960, The Spanish Labyrinth assesses the social and political background of the war, not the w……続きを見る